Mitchel Air Base and Flight Line

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1897 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 1,450 fires within 5 miles of Mitchel Air Base and Flight Line between 1992 and 2020, burning about 614 acres in total. 72 started naturally. 163 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Every fire recorded in Nassau County

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Uniondale, the town this property stands in, in 1 storm report in 2006: 1 lightning. The reports record 5 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

Every storm recorded in Nassau County

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

• 1897 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
• 1898 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
• 1899 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500
• 1903 USGS Hempstead quadrangle1:62500 - 9 printings
• 1947 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1949 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1954 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1955 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000
• 1957 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1958 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
• 1960 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
• 1969 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000 - 2 printings
• 1969 USGS New York quadrangle1:250000
• 1984 USGS Long Island West quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
• 1994 USGS Freeport quadrangle1:24000

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Saint Mary's Chapel	1.8 miles	2005
	US Post Office-Garden City	1.9 miles	1989
	Hempstead Town hall	1.9 miles	2018
	St. George's Church	1.9 miles	1973
	Rectory of St. George's Episcopal Church	1.9 miles	1988
	Nassau County Courthouse	2.1 miles	2021